On the regularity of timelike extremal surfaces
2014 ◽
Vol 17
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pp. 1450048
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We study a class of timelike weakly extremal surfaces in flat Minkowski space ℝ1+n, characterized by the fact that they admit a C1 parametrization (in general not an immersion) of a specific form. We prove that if the distinguished parametrization is of class Ck, then the surface is regularly immersed away from a closed singular set of Euclidean Hausdorff dimension at most 1 + 1/k, and that this bound is sharp. We also show that, generically with respect to a natural topology, the singular set of a timelike weakly extremal cylinder in ℝ1+n is one-dimensional if n = 2, and it is empty if n ≥ 4. For n = 3, timelike weakly extremal surfaces exhibit an intermediate behavior.
2004 ◽
Vol 2004
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pp. 2019-2038
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Vol 19
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pp. 545-555
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2020 ◽
Vol 486
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pp. 123932
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1954 ◽
Vol 50
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pp. 391-393
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2015 ◽
Vol 145
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pp. 161-174
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2019 ◽
Vol 48
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pp. 119-123
2001 ◽
Vol 44
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pp. 150-159
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